Whether Abortion Is Immoral or Not, the State Oversteps It's Legitimate Function When It Prohibits Abortions

Whether abortion is immoral or not, the state oversteps it's legitimate function when it prohibits abortions.

Here's why:

When the state oversteps its boundaries and prohibits abortions it is denying our personal freedoms. We have the right to choose our own religions, jobs, schools and many other examples. But why can we not choose to have a baby aborted if we feel it's necessary. For example, if a young lady in high school unfortunately gets pregnant, she should be able to make the decision to either have the baby or decide that she's not ready to birth a child and have it aborted. Some people might say she should not have that choice, but who are they to make that decision.

In another case were the state oversteps it legitimate function when it prohibits abortions, is when a woman has been raped. With this circumstance should the woman be forced to have a kid that she did not want in the first place? If a woman is raped she should be able to choose an abortion because she was violated and has had a personal freedom taken from her already.

Some people might say, "It's not that we don't like abortion, it's the issue of safety." There have been cases of people dying or having serious medical problems due to the abortion procedure. Even with laws in place giving guidelines to doctors on the procedure, some doctors or unlicensed doctors still could injure a person, or even kill them. To think that is ludicrous, because a person could go to a licensed doctor that has statistics of his procedures.

Other people might say that abortion is murder. Abortion is the killing of a life that is starting to develop into a human being. With this circumstance, abortion should be treated as a crime and a punishment for that crime should be given. But if we were to do this, should women who have had miscarriages be prosecuted for murder also? I don't think it's legitimate.

In conclusion the freedom of making the decision to abort a baby should always lie in the hands of the woman dealing with it and should not be decided for her by the state.

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